Comments on: Getting the size of a file in ColdFusion /get-file-size-coldfusion/ Web development notes and commentary from Ryan Stille Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:37:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: JC /get-file-size-coldfusion/comment-page-1/#comment-2422 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:37:48 +0000 /2008/02/13/get-file-size-coldfusion/#comment-2422 I know this is a really old post, but in case someone else finds it, the answer to John DeGrood's question:
<cfhttp method="head" url="http://wherever.com/whatever.jpg&quot; >
<cfdump var="#cfhttp.Responseheader['Content-Length']#">

I'd put the result into some kind of cached variable for some period of time, unless you expect the file on the remote server will change without changing filenames.

]]> By: Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson /get-file-size-coldfusion/comment-page-1/#comment-1557 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:41:21 +0000 /2008/02/13/get-file-size-coldfusion/#comment-1557 Leave it to ColdFusion to not have this basic functionality implemented until 2007. *sigh*

Thanks for the tips. 🙂 It worked.

]]> By: John DeGrood /get-file-size-coldfusion/comment-page-1/#comment-365 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:01:41 +0000 /2008/02/13/get-file-size-coldfusion/#comment-365 the getFileInfo(path) function only works if you are dealing with a file on your one server, what if I need to see the size of a file on a remote server before I allow users to download the file – trying to control bandwidth issues.

]]> By: Ryan Stille /get-file-size-coldfusion/comment-page-1/#comment-364 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:29:44 +0000 /2008/02/13/get-file-size-coldfusion/#comment-364 Doh! I had looked all over the docs too see if I was missing something, but I guess I just didn’t catch that. I have used ImageInfo(), which returns info about an image, so I was sure there would be a FileInfo(), too, but there wasn’t.

Anyway, good to know, thanks.

]]> By: Roland Collins /get-file-size-coldfusion/comment-page-1/#comment-363 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:05:53 +0000 /2008/02/13/get-file-size-coldfusion/#comment-363 In CF8, we have GetFileInfo(path) to retrieve all of this information 🙂

]]>